1/48 Hasegawa Messerschmitt 

Bf 109G-10 Wilde Sau, JG 300

by Davin Evans

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The night of July 24-25 1943 was the first time the British used bundles strips of foil to fool German radar in an effort to confuse night fighters to protect the bombers from interception.  That attack on Hamburg decimated the city and caused astronomical civilian casualties and the old German night fighting system of Himmelbett  which had worked very well, was suddenly out of date due to the reliance on radar.  A new system was thought up by Hans-Joachim “Hajo” Herman called Wilde Sau, or Wild Boar.  Day fighters would be sent up to look for bombers by moonlight, flares and searchlights.  During the bombing raid on Peenemunde on August 17, 1943 about 30 Wide Sau fighters entered a stream of bombers and shot down 29 of the 40 bombers shot down that night.  

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This is Hasegawa’s 1/48 scale Bf 109G-10 “JG 300” painted in the markings of Feldwebel Eberhard Gzik.  The kit was built OOB with only the replacement of the kit’s DF antenna with part of a PE fret and a aerial made out of stretched Sprue.  The model was painted with Model Master enamel paints.

Davin 

Photos and text © by Davin Evans